North Stand Construction Discussion

Coatigan said:
My understanding is the club. But happy to defer to those that know more.

Edit, the club are down as the client in all the correspondence, as the investor in the application, and the section 106 agreement is with the club. It would be a bit counterintuitive that it is then a cfg asset, but I have no idea how their internal model works.
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The arena is on a leasehold 80%/20% split in our favour with MCC and that should be worth a few million. So effectively we are both landlord and part tenant but I've no idea about the arena revenues which are mainly for the JV with Oak View less the smaller additional shareholders.

The hotel is an interesting one and presumably we will strike a deal with a hotel chain to run it in the same way, for example, as Abu Dhabi did with the Emirates Palace which is run by the Mandarin Oriental chain. The club will definitely make money out of that and the leashold is again 80% City/20% MCC.

Then you have the outlets in City square (run by independents or outsourced?) and the office space which City have already said part will be let to independent businesses. We are definitely making a bob or two out of that and again an 80/20 split with MCC for leaseholds/rents. It would be interesting to see how it's all carved out.
 
cpoverview said:
Sorry , todays flyover is a bit late

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Great video. Thank you. Really appreciate your efforts - particularly in the rain. The project is making good progress - the scaffolding has gone from the end of the hotel with the overhang and it looks like the admin block is about to get underway. Last thing… I assume there’s a row of seating to go back in before the season starts?
 
I know I’m going off topic again, but whilst we’re in-between drone video and picture updates, it’s good to remember MR and the different stands.

Platt Lane.

From this

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To this.

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Oh Peter(RIP), why did you do it?

An interesting read. Bitter, jealous, or…..

The 4 MR stand descriptions are OK.

I came across it when I found the old Platt Lane picture. Note the fencing along the front of the Platt Lane.

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57 Hatters Years : MAINE ROAD - MANCHESTER CITY / SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY

Stockport County - 4 County trips to Maine Road with the one in Dec 1999 providing one of the 'highest highs'. A proper football ground not an architects wet dream!
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jrb said:
Probably one of the worst stands ever built in football.

After seeing the fantastic Platt Lane torn down to make way for it, I was bitterly disappointed by it.

Cheap and nasty looking.
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i have never heard anyone describe the old Platt Lane as being fantastic. serious question, were you a regular at Maine Road?
 
warpig said:
i have never heard anyone describe the old Platt Lane as being fantastic. serious question, were you a regular at Maine Road?
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As my Maine Road baptism, it was absolutely fantastic to me.

From the plank seats, to the “can you move up a bit, Mister,” to the roof that seemed to not only keep off the rain but keep in the smoke of 5,000 Woodbines, to the proximity to the big lads in the Kippax, to the being able to move down to front as people started to leave, to calling Joe Corrigan “Muttonhead,” to feeling that it was a first step towards being a lifelong Blue…it was absolutely fantastic to me.
 
jrb said:
Probably one of the worst stands ever built in football.

After seeing the fantastic Platt Lane torn down to make way for it, I was bitterly disappointed by it.

Cheap and nasty looking.
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Swales was going to take the design around onto the Kippax he told me that to my face I replied in a similar vein to the above but in much less polite tones, he was shocked as he thought it was great. Mind you at an AGM when a question from the floor asked about the pillars in the main stand, he replied "what pillars"
 
Gordyola said:
Swales was going to take the design around onto the Kippax he told me that to my face I replied in a similar vein to the above but in much less polite tones, he was shocked as he thought it was great. Mind you at an AGM when a question from the floor asked about the pillars in the main stand, he replied "what pillars"
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I always thought the “original” plans for the redevelopment from the early-80s looked quite good though, especially the idea for the executive boxes to be suspended from the new Main stand roof. Although I do question now whether that was ever technically possible, and it was just my young self being conned by another Swales lie (first of many sadly).
 
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